Category Archives: Uncategorized

Scripting your desktop with dogtail

Today I was preparing some slides for my upcoming talks at 7th Encuentro Linux 2006 in Chile. I had planned to use some music in sync with some slides. However embbeding music in OpenOffice Impress is not easy. Also I’d … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

dyckola: bye bye

Last Thursday I was watching a really bad spanish movie on my computer when it just died. No power up, so I though that it was a problem with the power suply or the motherboard. It was a really old … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Wireless music at home

Yesterday I assembled my new IKEA desk. It’s nice to have my computer again on a desk :). In Madrid I used to connect my computer audio output to my Hi-Fi system to be able to listen to my mp3/ogg/flac … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Hacking at GUADEC

Really nice GUADEC week here in Vilanova. Interesting talks and meetings. Of course, lot of party and hacking. Yesterday, with the help of Lorenzo Gil I added support to pygtk to report a bug with bug-buddy when an exception happens. … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

New country, new job, new team

Last Wednesday I arrived to Helsinki. I have joined nokia for working in the maemo team: Simplified Bug Buddy usgin XML-RPC Finally with the great help of Brent Smith and Olav Vitters we have a flamant bug-buddy 2.15.0 out of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Encoding videos for Nokia 770 with GStreamer

Recently I have been traveling a lot. I use to sleep during train/plane/bus travels, but it is not always possible. Also recently I began to watch some TV shows that some friends of mine recommended to me: Alias, by my … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

RAD in GNOME: We got it

In 1997 Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena started the GNOME project. We got GNOME 1.0, then we got an usable and accesible Desktop with GNOME 2.0. Recently we got a GNOME 2.14, a desktop that my mum can use. … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

ETA announces permanent ceasefire

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Xara LX

Xara LX source code has been released under the GPL!. They claim great perfomance of their drawing engine: 2x compared to Microsoft GDI+ and 4x with cairo 1.0. They have release nice docs too. Altough the graphic engine (CDraw) source … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

GNOME 2.14 Relase party

Woops, I didn’t forget it….Here we are again! New GNOME, new party! Tomorrow GNOME 2.14 will be launched with lot of new features and improvements, so kudos to all developers and people that made this possible!. Now to celebreate it … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment